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The Kaduna State High Court on Tuesday ordered that two brothers be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged culpable homicide and armed robbery.    The police charged Hamza Jibrin, 27, and Yusuf Jibrin, 24, with conspiracy, armed robbery and culpable homicide.   The judge, Aisha Shagari, ordered the remand of the defendants, after they pleaded not guilty to the …

A Premier League footballer is being probed by police following multiple allegations of sex offences.     The man, in his 30s, is under investigation for the alleged rapes of two women and a sexual offence relating to a third woman.     Police first arrested him at an address in West London in July 2022 on suspicion of rape and …

Premier League referee David Coote has been suspended after a video allegedly showing him making derogatory comments about Liverpool and the club’s former manager Jurgen Klopp was circulated on social media. Refereeing body PGMOL says the suspension comes into force with immediate effect and is pending a full investigation. The video, widely shared on social media, has not been verified …

US prosecutors have charged individuals allegedly involved in an Iranian-directed plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump. The plot, attributed to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was purportedly intended as retaliation for the 2020 US-ordered killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, the Justice Department announced on Friday, November 8.   The lead suspect, Farhad Shakeri, 51, reportedly operating from …

Getty Images The Football Association has opened a safeguarding inquiry into a Premier League club boss, a year on from a BBC investigation. The investigation found that despite three women reporting the man to the police for alleged sexual offences, he remained in position at the club. One of the women told the BBC the FA had failed to protect …

Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, on Thursday, has pleaded with the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to suspend its strike action for the sake of the lives of their patients.  The NMA had issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the state government to dismiss the state’s Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs at Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital for allegedly assaulting a female doctor. They …

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Kano State chapter, has declared an indefinite withdrawal of medical services at Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, effective from 12:00pm on November 6, 2024.   The decision followed the alleged failure of the Kano State government to heed their demand to suspend the Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, Hajiya Amina Abdullahi, for allegedly assaulting a female medical …

The wife of a Kenyan businessman, Lucy Ng’ang’a Lucy, has reportedly d!ed just days after undergoing an alleged botched surgery.   Former governor, Mike Sonko, penned a heartfelt tribute to Lucy on X, extending his condolences to her husband, Ng’ang’a, the CEO of Valley Road Motors and Village Market Auto Bazaar.    In a post shared on Instagram on Wednesday, …

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the alleged threat to arrest, detain, and prosecute him after his tenure as governor.   Mr Sanwo-Olu, through his lawyer, Darlington Ozurumba, filed the fundamental right enforcement suit before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of a Federal High Court in Abuja.   When the matter was called for …

A viral video showing a v!olent att@ck on a woman alleged to be the mistress of a married man has triggered widespread outrage in Zimbabwe.    In the footage, an unidentified woman, along with her friends, is seen merc!lessly b3ating and str!.pping the alleged mistress, referred to locally as a “small house,” while ignoring her desperate pleas for mercy.   …